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Fire Up the Core Cannon
Author: Simon Sellars • Jul 29th, 2007 •Category: Ballardosphere, Bruce Sterling, cyberpunk, literature, science fiction
Pedro writes:
The canon of “Slipstream literature,” defined by a panel at Readercon has been posted by Paul DiFilippo. JGB is mentioned (Complete Stories as part of the “core canon” at number 10 and Empire of the Sun at 99). Kindness of Women was also suggested by one of the participants.
Here is a response by Paul Kincaid, who is unkind towards Empire.”
I’m very surprised to see the re-emergence of the term ’slipstream’. When i was reading cyberpunk stuff about 10 years ago it was briefly in use, but I haven’t come across it since. Bruce Sterling coined the term and even he thought it was pretty throwaway:
“Slipstream” is not all that catchy a term, and if this young genre ever becomes an actual category I doubt it will use that name, which I just coined along with my friend Richard Dorsett. “Slipstream” is a parody of “mainstream,” and nobody calls mainstream “mainstream” except for us skiffy trolls.”
Sterling recently commented on this slipstream canon business:
Fire up the core cannons and lay down a barrage of theoretical activity… I was the first guy to write an essay about “slipstream,” lo eighteen years ago, but this is a lot more work than I ever bothered to do… I’ve read almost all of those slipstream works, but I sure wouldn’t want to read them all in a row.”
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